high speed images used to examine behavior of munitions. Film showe a bullet fired into a container of water. The projectile penetrates the side of the container and continues through the liquid water, creating bubbles and voids. Water spews out of the hole in the container. (World War II period).
A C-119 flying boxcar airplane lands at an airfield. Rear view of the aircraft, with rear clamshell doors open wide, and twin booms overhead. Several ground crew in and around the aircraft. Navy officers measure an object to see if it will fit in the C-119. Naval officers, civilian technician, and others stand around an aircraft tail section. Mechanic works on empennage of an aircraft. Sailors manually carry tail section of U.S. Navy F9F-2 airplane, serial number 123571, and place it into the open tail of the C-119. Jet engine is hoisted on a truck that is backed to the C-119 tail. View from inside the C-119, of engine being pulled into the cargo hold. Views of airplane tail section being loaded and positioned in the C-119 cargo hold. One door of the aircraft is partially closed to check clearances.
An attack on a Japanese ship off the coast of Faisi Island, Solomon Islands during World War II. A periscope view shows a Japanese ship burning after an explosion. Smoke rises from the ship. U.S. sailors man a deck gun on a submarine. Smoke billows up from the ship. Bombardment of Japanese phosphate works on Faisi Island. Men secure the deck gun on the submarine. The deck gun is fired and it bombards the island. American flag flies on deck of the surfaced submarine.
Pratas Island in the Pacific Ocean, as seen from the deck of surfaced U.S. submarine, the USS Bluegill (SS-242) during World War 2. Barrel of deck gun seen. Japanese radio towers seen faintly in distance on the island. The boat shakes as its deck gun fires toward the radio towers. The Bluegill seen from another boat as she sits partially surfaced with small waves breaking over her deck. she submerges and then surfaces again. Huge explosions occur as demolition charges detonate destroying Japanese installations ashore. Dense smoke fills the area. A crew member stands on deck of the Bluegill, firing a rifle toward the shore.
USS Bluegill SS-242 off the coast of Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. A man fires at a mine with a rifle from the deck of USS Bluegill SS-242. CPO (Chief Petty Officer) and an enlisted man on the deck of USS Bluegill. A U.S. ship off Saipan Island. Stowing rope in a stowage space on the deck of USS Bluegill. A sailor paints on the deck of the boat. Saipan Island in the background. Men shoot at a mine with a 40mm gun and rifles. A man on the deck looks through binoculars.
USS Bluegill SS-242 off the coast of Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. 40mm gun crew in action aboard USS Bluegill. Another U.S. submarine rises. A U.S. Navy PBM Mariner flying boat in flight. U.S. sailors retrieve a glass fishing buoy. Gun crew aboard USS Bluegill. Men load and fire a 5 inch gun. Men load a gun.
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